2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Retail Management Major

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Retail Management is the 623rd most popular major in the country with 1,008 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 104 retail management graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Retail Management Major” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in retail management. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their retail management program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Retail Management Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree retail management students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Retail Management

1

LIM College
New York, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Retail Management Major that were part of this year’s ranking, LIM College landed the #1 spot on the list. New York, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out masters’s retail management degrees to 98 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Retail Management at LIM

2

Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Top 10% overall quality in United States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Retail Management Major list. Drexel University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has a large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Retail Management at Drexel University

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.